• Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Also

    Mark 10:17-25

    The Rich Man

    As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honor your father and mother.’ ” He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions. Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

    That was Palm Sunday lol. Fuckin murdered the guy later that week.

    • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      100% and they try to change the word “mamon” to “money” in “the love of money mamon is the root of all evil.”

      Which they further interpret as “well, i don’t love money. I just love the things it gets. Therefore, its all good.”

      I mean, if Jesus meant money, he would have used the Hebrew word for money and wouldn’t have switched to an aramaic word that means “wealth, over and above what you need to exist.”

      However, you can’t reconcile its actual meaning with American style supply-side Jesus.

      Another interesting thing is how the bible tries to blame the Rabbis for Jesus death, doing it via the Romans. If the Rabbis wanted Jesus dead, they would have killed him and they would have done so by stoning him to death.

      The Romans almost exclusively used crucifixion only on pirates, slaves or insurrectionists. Last I checked, there were no reports of Jesus being a slave or a pirate.

      Palm Sunday was seen as the start of a movement and the Romans conspired to kill him for it and nip it in the bud. The rest is spin. Presuming Jesus was real in the first place, of course.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      What we need to do here is find a way to liquify the camel’s body and increase the diameter of the eye of the needle. Then it’s really just a matter of patience.

      • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Perhaps we can simply process the camel and spin it into string?

        Once that’s over with we can use the same method to mass-produce Camel McNuggets.

    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      A rope through the eye of a needle, I think they realised it was a mistranslation.

      Edit: Biblical Greek “kámēlos” (camel) written in place of Biblical Greek “kámilos” (anchor rope/mooring cable). Neither are going to thread a needle, so I’m not sure what’s bothering everybody.

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I mean, in the context of the passage it’s pretty fucking clear that it isn’t an easy thing to do. It doesn’t matter if the saying was slightly off, the message is “give away all your possessions in order to follow Christ”.

        • bitwaba@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          No, it’s right there in the text. “Sell”, not “give”. You can be rich, you just can’t have stuff.

          Checkmate camels

  • twelve20two @slrpnk.net
    1·
    2 years ago

    I mean, he and his closest followers/the apostles really thought the world would be ending sometime in the next hundred years and that his resurrection was step one of the Jewish apocalypse (which would eventually include a physical kingdom of God on earth)

    The messages of kindness, love, and redistribution of wealth are great, but they’ve kinda been muddied since I found out it was started as a doomsday cult.

    That being said: be kind, love one another, and distribute your wealth anyway

  • Ignotum@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    “I’m God, your great great […] great grandmother did something i didn’t like so i hate you and plan to torture you for all eternity. Please execute me slowly and painfully so that i can forgive you!”

      • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        That would be from good omens season 2 (positive its good omens 70% sure it’s season 2 edit, it was season 1.), it’s produced and released by Amazon, based on works by Patchett and Gaiman (they had all 3 seasons storyboarded before patchett passed, and everything is produced with Gaimans final approval iirc) they are incredibly different stories, and both entirely consuming to watch.